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Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

Franz Grillparzer

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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
Robespierre
Pedant
Pedants
Pedantry
Freedom

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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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Why must ancients, and provided the same talent, be better than modern authors? Free to exploit the vast realm of the simpleand the natural, they did not have to be artificial in order to be original (which every artist aspires to be).
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The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
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Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.
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Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened.
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.
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Es binden Sklavenfesseln nur die H a« nde, Der Sinn, er macht den Freien und den Knecht. The chains of slavery can only bind the hands. The mind makes us either free or enslaved.
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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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